Building Sundials

Create your own sundial with MATLAB.

Description

If carefully built, a sundial is perfectly capable of keeping accurate time. The problem is that you need a different sundial for every combination of latitude, longitude, and day of the year. Fortunately MATLAB® can make this a manageable problem. By turning this procedure around, you can also use MATLAB to tell you which way is north.
 
The algorithms used here for MATLAB sundial creation were adapted from http://www.de-zonnewijzerkring.nl/eng/

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[martyn dorey]

Fantastic. Would be good to include a vertical mounted sundial too.

[IDRIS ELLIS]

why not just some simple trigonometry? After all, all of the original ALGORITHMS were in that formay: stuff having to put it into some programme which I do not have the machine for: the TI-81 is more than sufficent to the task, if one has the proper ALGORITHMS.